The Delights of Learning Turkish: A self-study course book for learners of Turkish

Livre pas mal, niveau structure, organisation et contenu.

This is an excellent textbook to learn Turkish. It goes well beyond the basic conversations that are stilted and unnatural that you will see in most language books. I’m here, you are given conversations that will challenge you to look up, think and deduce in order to learn a language. I am only beginning Unit 3 but I e already learned a lot.

I don't usually take the time to write book reviews on Amazon, unless the book is REALLY good! Well this is one of those times! I have been trying to get my head around the Turkish Language for the past few years. You would think that a language that is completely phonetic and written in the Latin Alphabet would give an English Speaker an advantage when learning it. It does not! Turkish is an agglutinative language. Basically this means that it pretty much makes a whole sentence and expresses in two or three words. And many time in just one word! Why so few words - because they cram all the words of a sentence together in a series of suffixes to make nice long words. Words that take the english speaking mind minutes to pick apart! You literally have to learn to think a little differently. It is not impossible - it just takes a little training. I am making progress - but not as fast as I usually do with other languages (Portuguese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic and several others). I have purchased over 35 books on learning Turkish in my journey. Some of them old and out of print, several published in Turkey for school children or Immigrants, and just about all the other newer "usual suspects" for learning a language. I only wish that I could have found this book first! It is absolutely the best book available to learn Turkish. Where do I start - it is logically set up with great vocabulary. The Grammar is really explained well - so that anyone could understand it. The exercises all make sense and they all have an answer key. Even the type face in the book seems to help with reading the lessons! The only thing lacking is an audio component. But Turkish is a totally phonetic language (like Spanish!) and you can easily get pronunciation practice from many other sources and courses available on Amazon. In short, buy this book! You will not be sorry and you will even learn Turkish!

The middle page came out on the day I received the book.

Plenty of exercises to practice.